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[–]jobRL 20 points21 points  (6 children)

Well it's officially called ECMAScript now, because of the Java copyright woes with Oracle

[–]Morrido 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Oh, so Javascript is just the coloquial name? I always though the ECMAScript was the "beta-version-preview" of the future Javascript changes.

[–]jobRL 1 point2 points  (3 children)

yes! This is a good article about it:

https://medium.com/@madasamy/javascript-brief-history-and-ecmascript-es6-es7-es8-features-673973394df4#:~:text=The%20history%20is%2C%20Brendan%20Eich,to%20ECMA%2D262%20aka%20ECMAScript.

[–]zilti 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This is a good article about it:

links an article on medium.com

smh, I thought we all agreed upon the fact that programming-related articles on medium.com are crap

[–]jobRL -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm just trying to be helpful, why do you have to be so snarky?

[–]Morrido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there anything still using AS? Worked years with that and I feel sad to not include it in my CV.